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🛡️ Security & Privacy

• Security in the LLM age presentation.

🛸 Tech

• Parrot OS 7.4 ships Linux kernel 7.1, systemd-based AnonSurf 6.0, new Discovery setup app, optimized amd64v3/arm64v8.2 ISOs and refreshed pentest tools. More
• Nuvacore, founded by ex-Apple and Nuvia architects, designs its WarpCore CPU "Core First," delaying the ISA choice (Arm, RISC-V or x86) as long as possible. More

🤖 AI

• Gemini 4 Argon: Google's frontier model for coding, knowledge work and cyber defense, with 1M output tokens, rolling out first to trusted defenders. More
• OpenAI dots: always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, with their own cloud computers and 4,000+ app plugins, rolling out to Pro and Business Premium. More
• Anthropic finds open-weight GLM-5.3 builds end-to-end exploits, and its weak safeguards are bypassed 64–100% of the time, unlike safeguarded Claude. More
• Cloudflare releases Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models for fast classification, plus a new RL fine-tuning service. More
• Aleph Alpha's Kolibri: open-weight German/English MoE (78B total, 3.5B active) with 1M-token context, Apache 2.0. More
• Earendil ships Pi 1.0, a hardened minimal agent harness, plus experimental Pi Durable for crash-surviving, long-running, multi-client agent apps. More · More

🛠️ Tools

• FLUX 3 Image: Black Forest Labs' model using bounding-box layouts for composing and pixel-precise editing, with multi-reference input and native 4K output. More
• DwarfStar 4 (ds4): antirez's C inference engine running DeepSeek V4/V4.1, GLM 5.x and Qwen3.8 locally on Metal, CUDA and ROCm, with OpenAI/Anthropic APIs. More

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